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This is the personal blog of Jesse Powell, co-founder and CEO at Kraken Bitcoin Exchange, formerly of Lewt, Inc.

I will be blogging on things that interest me, and where I think my perspective may be valuable to other people. I will not be blogging often.

Topics you can expect to see discussed include: video games, virtual worlds, education, philanthropy, philosophy, and probably to a lesser extent, politics, psychology, business and law.

It should be noted that I am still acting CEO at Kraken and advisor to Lewt. While I am not blogging here on the behalf of any company, I may to some degree censor my statements to protect their interests and my contractual obligations, especially when it comes proprietary and trade secret information.

If you're looking for news about Kraken, I suggest you follow @KrakenFX on Twitter. If you're looking for some Diablo 2 freebies, I suggest you follow @Lewt on Twitter.

June 2015

06/02/2015

You're a sexy enchantress. You have many admirers. Some are your closest friends, some would pay for your attention, and others would presume to make a whore of your inbox.

I get a lot of email.

1. At work I get a lot of email that is targeted spam—sales people reaching out to me, often with personalized messages. They can be relentless, and they have set up automation software to help them be relentlessness.

2. On my personal account, I get a lot of real email that is actually meant for other people. My username is generic enough that it surely exists on every email service. I’ve had lawyers send me others’ tax returns for chrissakes.

3. On both accounts, I get a lot of untargeted spam and unwanted notifications for services I never signed up for.

Existing efforts fall short.

Gmail’s new inbox categories are a great help with #3 but they don’t help with #1 and #2.

HashCash implementations, like Penny Post, are not widely adopted and do not allow the recipient to receive or refund the value spent by the sender.

Other services that would filter your mail for you require access to your mail account or require that your mail be forwarded to them, which obviously means that you can't use them for anything private, like your email.

Contacts are whitelisted and come through clear, without requirement to pay.

Those not whitelisted are filtered from your inbox and receive an auto response with a bitcoin address and request for payment in order to have their email appear in your inbox. If payment is received the messages is moved back to your inbox.

Those who do not pay are blacklisted and will never appear in your Inbox nor be responded to again.

No external services and no third parties have access to your data. Everything is contained within your Google account.

What you’ll need:

A Gmail account or Google hosted email for your domain.

A bitcoin address.

The critism: I don’t use Gmail.

The answer: We're looking forward to your port to Thunderbird, Mail.app and Outlook.